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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1904
FRIENDS AT COURT.
The salvation Of the Army post at
"Walla Walla Is not tmly a triumph for
the diplomacy and resolution of Senator
Ankeny, but will be accepted every
where in the Par West as an indication
that the War Department under Sec
retary Taft will give more considera
tion to the desires of people in this part
of the country. Secretary Root cared
no more for Walla Walla than he did
for Portland. A man of pre-eminent
ability In some respects, he was Incapa
ble of the kindly Impulses that animate
Secretary Taft, whose career in the
Philippines has won the affectionate
devotion of the entire archipelago.
It was of no concern to Secretary
Root what Walla Walla wanted or
Portland wanted. It was easier for him
to yield to clamor than to stand for
the Interests assailed. There was noth
ing in the agitation of Walla Walla for
its post xr of Portland for transports
and forage contracts that appealed to
him. It Is different with Taft. He has
awarded contracts to i'ortland ever
since he took hold of the office; and
now he has yielded to Senator Ankeny's
solicitations on Walla Walla's behalf
handsomely. The post will be retained
and not only that, but infantry bar
racks will be added to the cavalry
equipment. The post will be rebuilt
and enlarged.
It may not be a popular gospel in a
commercial age, but It is a fact that
sympathy may lead a man into the
course of justice as well as Into error.
In this case Secretary Taft has been
led by sympathy into simple justice.
There never was any reason for the
abandonment of Fort Walla Walla but
the insatiable and selfish clamor of its
enemies. It Is a sightly and healthful
place, convenient to transportation fa
cilities, and the only military post in a
region thickly settled with busy and
growing cities. It was so with Port
land's demand for fair treatment with
Government contnvcts. All we asked
was what was right; all we needed was
a man with nerve enough to withstand
the "pull" of San Francisco and Puget
Sound. "What was really needed In the
War Department was not "friends at
court" so much as a just Judge on the
bench.
INTANGIBLE EVIDENCE.
The Smoot investigation now in prog
ress before a grave and dignified com
mlttee of United States Senators Is
likely to prove conspicuous, by the lack
of tangible evidence against the Sena
tor from "Utah that will lead to his com
pulsory retirement from the Senate.
President Joseph F. Smith, of the
Church of Latter-Day Saints, has been
too thoroughly schooled in the tenets of
his church either to deny or affirm any
thing, however adroitly he may be
questioned, that will have direct bear
Ing upon the matter at issue. He is a
Mormon born and bred; he believes in
the principles of divine revelation upon
which the Mormon Church is founded
He believes in polygamy, in the story
literally rendered of the "visit of an an
gel in black" to his uncle, Joseph W.
Smith, and in the authenticity of the
report of this visit by his redoubtable
kinsman.
All of this and much more to the
same effect President Smith steadfastly
believes, or says he does, and there Is
no reason to doubt the sincerity of his
statements. And what of It? Are not
religious zealots and emotional ecclesl
astics under the protection of our Gov
ernment? If not specially protected,
are they not covered, along with other
citizens, by the "free and equal" spec!
flcations of our Constitution and laws
Who shall dispute the right or deny
to this gray-bearded apostle of a patri
archai creed the privilege of believing
the story or "revealed religion" accord
ing to the Book of Mormon? And com
lng closer to the subject in hand, who
shall say "nay" to Senator Smoot
yea" when interrogated upon the same
points?
Senator Reed Smoot, though an ad
herent of the Morman faith and
member in good standing of the Mor
mon Church, is the self-proclaimed
husband of one wife and otherwise
law-abiding citizen of the State of
Utah. He has never been a polygamist
in practice, whatever he has been or Is
In theory. He has never sought to
evade the law that forbids plural mar
riage. It will possibly be difficult to
find what hl3 private opinion is upon
this question. Or if he admits that he
, believes in polygamy, it will be difficult
to unseat him by means of this passive,
inoperative belief. The blind beliefs of
the Morman faith, and the Inapplicabll
Ity of some of them to modern com
munlty life, are no greater than are
those of many others. It la granted
that the practice of polygamy has been
prohibited by wise and -wholesome leg
islation. Civilized society has made a
demand in this matter that Is generally
accepted as necessary to secure stabil
ity of its Institutions the basis of which
is the orderly, harmonious home.
If a man respects this law in ordering
his personal conduct, it i3 not easy to
see how he can be pursued into the
domain of private opinion and made to
revise his beliefs In accordance with the
statute, on penalty of enforced retire
ment from public life. President Jo
seph W. Smith knows a good many
things that he can "hardly be expected
to tell that it may safely be assumed
he will not tell. In this he does not
differ from men in other walks of life
political leaders, for example, who are
charged with the duty of levying upon
the salaries of the faithful for campaign
funds. Adroitness in presenting a case
or In meeting criticism is reckoned a
necessary and valuable accomplish
ment. President Joseph W, Smith Is
adroit. And there are others.
CAUTION OPPOSING UNREADINESS.
When the first battle of Bull Run sent
the Union soldiers flying in a panic
toward Washington, the Confederacy
regarded its ultimate triumph a fore
gone conclusion. When the Boers won
their first signal victories over the
British in South Africa, there were
plenty to take oath the British could
never conquer tnem. Tnese illustra
tions show the per?l of jumping to oon-
clusions from the promptness with
which an alert and agile foe springs
Into action against a greater and more
unwieldy power. Large bodied move
slowly. Especially In wars that Involve
land operations over considerable dis
tances, time and, endurance must be
reckoned with in the long run.
If we look at the present conflict In
the Orient dispassionately; If we con
template it as a military problem in
volving something more than the fact
that Irishmen were executed In 179S and
Jews were massacred at Kishinef, we
shall see that each of the parties to
this great struggle is moving on the
lines made necessary to it by Its cir
cumstances. By both Russia and Japan
the science of war has been made a
careful study. They are grappling witn
conditions the best they can. The game
is being carefully played; and the ob
server must bear In mind, not only the
fact that each side Is informed as to
the other's capabilities and Intentions,
but also the multitudinous exaggera
tions and misrepresentations that
spring from Russian sources on the one
hand and from pro-Japanese sources,
mostly in London, on the other hand.
It is now announced that the Japan
ese assault on Port Arthur, bulletined
dally and described by fanciful and
desperate correspondents almost dally
as having occurred. Is hardly to be
looked for before two weeks. This is in
keeping with the Japanese policy
throughout. Japan has so much to lose
In this war that she must avpld taking
desperate chances. Even In the naval
engagements her policy has been to
strike quickly and get away. She can
not afford to lose any considerable por
tion of her navy. Control of the sea Is
everything to her, for onie it Is lost she
Is hopelessly shut qut of the mainland.
This" Is why she wisely forbears" to risk
her ships In a .general engagement.
Russia konws this, and therefore she
Is patiently waiting for a set "battle
wherein her losses may be offset to
some extent by damage to the Japan
ese. Some of her best warships have
not yet been under fire. She has no
idea of letting them be harried by Jap
ariese craft that will throw a few shells
and run away.
On land the fundamental Japanese
caution is magnified by the difficulties
of disembarkation and transport. How
nard it is to put troops ashore on
Summer seas and favorable coasts our
own operations in Cuba bear witness
but the Corean shores are difficult of
access at best, and at this time of year
are frozen, sometimes well out to sea.
From the coast to the Yalu River, which
must be reached before an engagement
can take place, is a journey of hundreds
of miles over almost impassable roads,
It is hard 'to get troops and supplies
ashore; it is harder yet to get them
inland; and all this time the greatest
caution must be observed lest op'era
tions be attacked by Russian ships or
Cossack riders.
Admirably as the Japanese operations
are being conducted, we do not see how
the Russians, either, could do much bet
ter than they are doing. It is proposed
to depose Alexieff because he has not
evacuated Port Arthur promptly and
retired to the natural and more readily
defended base at Harbin; and yet if the
merit of Alexleff's plan comes to trial
its wisdom may be shown In the labor
that will be imposed upon Japan in
dislodging the Russians from their line
of defense along the Yalu. It would be
hard for the Russians to win back
Corea from Intrenched Japanese; but
the same advantage which accrued to
the defensive Boers from British at
tacks will now accrue to the defensiv
Russians along the Yalu from Japanese
attacks. Time, in any event, is an ob
ject for Russia, enabling her to bring
a steady stream of reinforcements from
home. It will soon be a month since
Japan severed diplomatic relations at
St. Petersburg. It may be another
month before there will be any decisive
fighting on the Yalu.
An excess of water one year and
dearth for from three to five years rep
resent conditions in the Sacramento and
San Joaquin Valleys with which the
residents of those sections have to con
tend. We can forgive them the sneer
expressed In the stereotyped statement
so common among them that "It rains
thirteen months a year in Oregon,'
when we hear of them, now choked
with dust and scorched by hot winds
and again looking ruefully at the top
most twigs of their orchards as these
appear above a flood of waters. vPeo
pie who have to contend with such ex
tremes of wet and dry cannot be ex
pected to understand climatic condi
tlons that insure enough and not too
much moisture for the purposes of ag-
riculture year after year, with unvary
ing certainty. At present some 60,000
acres of farm and orchard lands are
submerged by the Sacramento. Amgxl
can and Mokelumne Rivers. The situ
ation is distressing, and calls for relief
In a system of drainage and the storage
of surplus waters that will equalize to
some extent at least the distribution of
moisture in the valleys over which flood
and drouth hold sway by turns at ir
regular Interval
If March will only enter upon his
lamb-like period with unusual celerity
we may hope that by the end of the
month the river may be sufficiently free
of Ice to allow the San Francisco and
Oriental liners to resume their traffic,
Possibly it will be May before the rail
ways will be able to clear their tracks
of snow so as to permit the uninter
rupted service that will be necessary to
cleaa up the accumulation of goods
caused by our Winter blockade. We
all hope for an early Summer, and our
frost-bitten cheeks grow warm with
pleasure when we read such expres
sions of sympathy as this from the
American Lumberman, of Chicago,
February 27:
Is the climate going' back on the Pacific
Coast? Late reports go to show that Janu
ary roses of the Willamette Valley have been
snowed under and frozen out by a right
down, old-fashioned Eastern. Winter. The
cold has been so intense and the snow so
deep at Portland that the harbor has been
blockaded, with Ice and the railroads were
unable to handle the traffic urgently otfered.
On the Washlneton Coast hurricanes have
been so severe as to destroy numerous build
ings and wreck several vessels. Gales of
unusual ferocity have delayed shipments of
lumber all the way down the Coast from
Puget Sound to San Francisco. What's the
use of chasing climate anyway, .when " the
glorious one of California and the whole
Western Coast goes back on Itself in such
way?
The flowers we see blowing In every
garden must be unreal dream flowers
optical illusions.
FUTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES,
The new Secretary of War ought to
be able to guide our Government wisely
in regard to its policy toward the Phil
lppines, for.as Governor of that group
he came into Intimate touch with the
Filipinos. An able lawyer, a man of
mature age, the personal official experi
ence of Secretary Taft in the Philip
pines clothes with authority his views
regarding the best governmental policy
for those islands. The judgment of ex
Governor Taft Is that by the middle of
1906 the natives may be able to conduct
their own Assembly as part -of the civil
government. He reports that English
and Belgian capitalists are ready to,
invest their money In railway and in
dustnal enterprises in the islands. But
it is the opinion of the majority of the
Philippine Commission that our Gov
ernment is amply warranted In creat
lng railways In the Philippines by guar
anties or subsidies as a military meas
ures Great Britain built railways in
India and placed steamers on her great
rivers, and until this was done civiliza
tion moved at a snail's pace compared
with Its present nro.s'ress. The con
structlon of railroads, telegraphs and a
splendid postal system have done more
for India than a thousand years of na
tive rule would have accomplished
Ex-Secretary of War Root held that
an adequate system of railroads would
greatly reduce the Cost of maintaining
law and order and protecting life and
property in those Islands. He believed
that the difference between the cost of
a government with an adequate system
of railroads and the cost of a govern
ment of equal efficiency without rail
roads would be greater than the inter
est on the money necessary to build and
operate the roads. Legislation author
izing the Philippine government to exe
cute a guarantee of 4 per cent per an
num on 540,000,000 of bonds for railroad
construction is likely to be enacted by
Congress, and will have the support of
the Administration. The antl-imperlal-
lsts continue to rage and reproach the
Republican party with.beginnlng to ad
mit that the Filipinos must in time be
given their independence. Whatever
Individuals may have said, the United
States Government has never commit
ted Itself to the declaration that there
was no prpspect or ultimate independ
ence for those islands. The United
States took these islands and has thus
lar governed them because in honor
and consideration for the safety of the
civilized world it could not decently re
mit the islands to the tender mercy of
Spain .or abandon them to become a
nest of Oriental pirates until some for
eign naval power snapped them up to
our disadvantage.
To have returned Manila to Spain or
to have left the Filipinos to their own
devices would have insured a state of
Oriental anarchy and savagery that
would have made these Islands a public
enemy and outlaw In the eyes of the
civilized world. The altruistic political
cranks who maundered about "the con
sent of the governed" seemed to think
that the Philippines left to themselves
were as sure of harmonious and peace
ful life as a rabbit warren or -a dove
cote, but a group of islands that were
largely a nest of Mclay pirates even
under the government of Spain would
De sure to eat up each other and all
aliens the moment they were abandoned
to their own intuitions of "self-government."
The future of these islands will
be settled solely upon practical consld
eratjons. We' left Cuba to her own do
vices tne moment that we deemed it
safe to allow her to exercise home rule.
and yet we hold Cuba by a string today
long enough and strong enough to hold
her people In leash, if they should at
tempt to play into the hands of any for
eign government without our approval
We shall probably do the same with
the Philippines. We shall give them
self-government whenever we think It
is safe for them, for us and for the
civilized world that they should become
independent, but when we grant the
Filipinos independence It will doubtless
be Independence with a string to It long
enough and strong enough so that we
shall retain a naval station in Manila
Bay or its vicinity, and we shall forbid
the government of the islands making
any treaty with any great naval power
of Europe which will subvert or .reduce
the present supreme political influence
of the United States over those Islands.
That Is, even as Cuba, nominally Inde
pendent, is held by a string to the
United States, so the Phlllnnlnes nr4
not likely to obtain a irlft of lndenonrt-
ence so absolute that they will not be'
held by a string which goes back to the
strong hand of .the United States. No-
body can ee so far into the future as
to know what will happen In China.
The united States cannot dodge her
destiny, if she would. She is cei-taln to
be a strong naval power and sure to
have a strong naval squadron on the
Pacific Coast of Asia.
With this outlook It is as absurd to
assume that wo shall soon entirely let
so -of the Philippines as it is to assume
that we shall soon entirely cut loose'
from Cuba. We cannot possibly gov
ern these islands by exactly the same
methods under which our various states
live and move and have their being,
any more than Great Britain can- gov
ern India according to the constitu
tional methods by which the United
Kingdom is .ruled. Great Britain gov
erns India justly humanely and hon
estly; but Its scheme is largely that of
a benevolent despotism. We shall give
the Filipinos independence and home
rule whenever we think It Is the best
thing we can do. for them, but we shall
never entirely cut loose from the Phil
ippines any more than we are entirely
cut loose from Cuba. We do not mean
to let Cuba surrender to the blandish
ments of any foreign naval power la
the future, and we do not mean to leave
the Philippines free to be occupied or
controlled by any of the great powers
of Europe. The United States Is-not a
pirate civilization on sea or land; but
at the same time the United States does
not consider the altruistic imbecility of
anti - imperialism sound American
statesmanship.
The French have been singularly
successful In their administration of
Madagascar In the less than nine years
that have elapsed since September 30,
1895, when the French army marched
Into Antananarivo, the capital, and pro
claimed the protectorate of France
over the fourth largest Island in the
world. Its area is 240,000 square miles
and Its population nearly 4,000,000. The
Island has been so completely pacified
that a white man Is safe in every part
of It. The military rule has been sup
planted by local police. Hospitals for
the natives have been established at all
the larger 'centers of population. The
white father of a child by a native
mother Is compelled .to support it if he
can be found. If not, It is supported by
the government. A maternity hospital
has been opened at the capital. Excel
lent wagon roads have been extended
across the island, and a railroad Is now
under construction from the east coast
to Antananarivo. Postal services ex
tend into the interior, and a special
postal steamer piles up and down,
touching all the east coast ports. The
telegraph and telephone systems have
been extended over a considerable por
tion of the island. Colonists who have
.51000 each to give them a start receive
free transportation from France to the
island, and under certain conditions ths
government gives assistance to French
colonists during the first two or three
years, cattieralsing for export is De-
coming an Important business, while
sugar-making and salt production offer
good opportunities. Madagascar Is
very rich in natural resources of forest.
mining and agricultural wealth, and
France knows that ultimately Its de
veloDment will make the country a
source of wealth. France, whether In
Africa or Asia, manifests a superior
talent for winning the regard and con
fidence of the native population. In In
dia the French were originally more in
fluential than the English, but the mill
tary genius of Cllve defeated the
French in battle and expelled them
from India. Had the home government
given Duplelx the military support he
deserved, the English might have been
compelled to divide the dominion of
India with France, for In the start the
French had the better of It In winning
Influence with the native states and
their rulers.
Brigadier-General George B. Davis,
Judge-Advocate-General of the Army,
supports In his "Elements of Interna
tional Law" the view that a declaration
of war before the opening of hostilities
by any nation is unnecessary. General
Davis. In his book which is used as a
text-book, says: "In former times war
was declared with great formalities.
This Is no longer the case, the formal
declaration having ceased when the ne
cessity for Its existence had passed
away." This disposes of the Russian
contention that Japan should have for
mally declared war before attacking the
Russian fleet. General Davis further
says in his book:
When the relations of two, states become
strained tho fact Is at once known . through
out the civilized world and the subjects
of .the unfriendly powers have sufficient time
.'to arrange their business affairs and to ac
commodate their legal relations to the
changed conditions. When all attempts at
peaceable adjustment have failed, diplo
matic Intercourse ceases, Ministers are with
drawn and the military and naval forces of
the belligerents are mobilized and placed
upon a war footing. So far as the opposing
nations are concerned, no further declara
tion is now necessary.
As to neutrality, General Davis holds
that the opening of hostilities is alone
sufficient to make a state of war and
place other nations in a neutral posi
tion.
The man who becomes engaged to a
young woman of the changeable order
Is to be congratulated when the damsel
changes her mind before marriage.
There Is, of course, some embarrass
ment consequent upon being supplanted
In the affections of a young woman by
another man, but this is trifling when
compared with the condition of mind
In which a man pursues his errant wife
In the hope of inducing her to abandon
the other man and return to his home
"for the children's sake." The loss in
the first instance is summed up in the
value of the few trinkets, including
perhaps a diamond ring, which he has
given her. If the superseded lover Is
a prudent man he will let these thing3
go without protest that will bring his
name before the public, and account
himself as having gotten rid of a bad
bargain cheaply and in good season.
It Is wise for a man to keep some
things to himself, and the fact that he
has come into good fortune in this way
is one of them. Let him g to his own
room, iock tne door and snaKe nanus
with himself at havinsr thus early come
to a settlement with! a woman whose
affections are of the wandering order.
La grippe and kindred ailments In
cident to the sudden changes of tem
perature and the .general severity of the
weather in New York caused the death
list for the last week in February to
reach 179V. This mortality, appalling
as it isL does not complete the tale of
suffering of the week covered. The
hospitals were crowded and the tene
ments were full of people In various
stages of pulmonary troubles, ranglnj
-from the "bad cold" to pneumonia.
ainny of tnese cases have already gone
upon the list of the dead for thefirst
week in March and new ones have
taken their places, and still Winter
loosens his icy grip on the great me
tropolis only, to take a new hold. While
there is a general impression that Feb
ruary did not treat the people of Oregon
with the consideration that they had
from long acquaintance a right to ex
pect, comparison with- the February
weather dealt out on the Atlantic Coast
in nearly the same latitude -should
make even the chronic growler dismiss
the Indictment for "wretched weather"
against our February as not warranted
by the facts..
On February 22,-,two weeks after the
complete destruction of Its former es
tablishment, the Baltimore . News re
sumed publication on Its own plant,
without having mls3ed a .single Issue.
The new plant includes all the machin
ery and supplies fornierjy used by the
Philadelphia Times, and -it Is installed
In what wa3 a few days ago a foundry.
which was rapidly converted into a
fully equipped n.ewspaper office. If all
the citizens set about repairing the
damage done by the fire In the same
energetic manner as the News, Balti
more should soon replace the over
worked phoenix as a simile.
THE VOICE 0F NEW YORK..
New York Times.
The Honorable John H. Clarke, of
Cleveland, who was named by the Dem
ocrats of the Ohio Legislature as their
candidate for the United States Senate
against Senator Hanna last month, tells
the New York correspondent of The
Cleveland Plain Dealer that the Demo
crats of bis state are waiting for some
sign from New York. At the same time
he describes a condition of the Demo
cratic mind that exists generally through
out the country, as current reports show.
We quote from our Cleveland contem
porary's report:
It Is recognized everywhere that, without
New Tork we cannot succeed, and the con
clusion Is general that the New Tork Demo
crats ought to know better than any other
men In the country who would make the
strongest candidate In their state.
It would clarify the political atmosphere
greatly It the New Tork leaders could hold an
early convention and Instruct for some candi
date. If they do not do bo the delegates of
other states are likely to meet with extremely
indefinite notions as to what Bhould be done,
and then, acting in haste or under the In
fluence of momentary enthusiasm, make an
other of those mistakes' so common In the po
litical history of our country, by nominating
some man who cannot command the conserva
tive vote of the Eastern States, which will
decide the election.
If the question. Who would be the
strongest candidate? were asked of a
multitude of New York Democrats to
day, we think a very large majority of
them would answer Grover Cleveland.
Not all of the Democrats who express
this opinion would say that they thought
Mr. Cleveland could be nominated; they
would not agree that It would be wise
or considerate to forco the ex-President
to reconsider his expressed determination
not to run for the office. The prevailing
belief to which we refer Is that If Mr.
Cleveland were nominated he would get
a larger vote than any other candidate
who could be named. He i3 not merely
the type of man, but Is himself the very
man a great part, probably a majority
of the American people would be well
content to have In the White House dur
ing the next Presidential term. He Is the
embodiment of the political virtues for
which a country somewhat weary of dis
quieting adventures, is yearning.
Demoralizing Newspapers.
C. W. Post, president Association of American
Advertisers. In an address to the Buckeye
Press Association.
I have in mind a certain yellow Jour
nal whose owner is a demagogue and
grandstand player of the most danger
ous type. He panders to the lower ele
ments in humanity. If a labor union
striked he immediately arraigns all em
ployers so villainously that his partly
educated readers begin to hate em
ployers, good and bad. His first act
is to villlfy the man who pays out the
money to work people and flatter the
workman, even after he becomes a vio
lent lawbreaker and criminal. Thus,
for his own supposed gain, he arrays
employe agaihst employer a direct
tendency toward anarchy, and he does
this for the purpose of gaining sub
scribers, so that he can charge heavy
prices to the advertisers. The penny
that he gets for the paper does not
yield a profit. The support of his en
terprise comes from the advertiser, yet
he Is using every means In his power
to create a sentiment against the em
ploying class, that will, if continued
to its ultimatum, breaK down every
form of law and order in this country.
It is time the advertiser ceased pay
ing money out to an anarchist to use
for the destruction of business and of
law. I wish to protest most earnestly
against the continued payment of
money by employers to this class ot
publishers. One great aim of the hon
est press is to bring into closer har
mony the workman and the employe
who should both act as a unit and not
as opposing forces, each seeking the
other's destruction. Let the editorial
columns of the newspapers ring with
fair, Just utterances that will make
clear to employer and employe alike
the need of continued and steady one
ration of our Industrial enterprises. It
is not a true policy for the editorial
end of a newspaper to condemn uni
versally employers and pander to em
ployes, simply In an effort to build up
circulation. That sort of policy Is sure
to bring ruin as sin is sure to bring its
reward. Just In porportlon as a news
paper lowers Its character and repu
tation for fairness and integrity, Just
in that proportion it lowers Its stand
lng and value to the readers.
Why
He Was Not Promoted.
Success. '
He watched the clock.
He was always grumbling.
He was always behindhand.
He had no Iron In his blood.
He was willing, but unfitted.
He didn't believe himself.
He asked too many questions.
He was stung by a bad look.
His stock excuse was, "I forgot,"
He wasn't ready for the next step.
He learned nothing from his blun
ders.
He felt that he was above his posi
tion.
He chose his friends among his in
feriors.
He was content to be a second-rate
man.
He never dared act on his own judg
ment.
He did not think it worth while to
learn how.
He tried to make his "bluff" take
the place of ability.
He thought he must take amusement-
every evening.
Familiarity with slipshod methods
paralyzed his ideal.
He thought it was very clever to use
coarse and profane language.
He was ashamed of his parents be
cause they were old-fashioned.
He imitated the habit of men who
could stand more than he could.
He did not learn that the best part
of his salary was. not in his pay en
velope.
California Will Make Good.
Los Angeles Herald.
Los Angeles County should do herself
justice in the Lewis and Clark Centen
nial to be held next year at Portland,
Or. This section never falls in be
stirring itself when it means the win
ning of more homeseekers.
Probably Intended as a Joke.
Kansas City Star.
General Frederick Funston has be
lieved all along that the abbreviated
stature of the Japs would enhance
rather than impair their efficiency as
fighters.
The Light of Other Days.
Thomas Moore.
Oft in the stilly night .
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond Memory brings the light
Of other days around me:
The smiles, the- tears '
Of boyhood's years.
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone,
Now dlmm'd and gone.
The cheerful hearts now broken! - -s. :
Thns in the stilly nleht
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Ead Memory brings the light
Of other days around me.
When I remember all . -
TPe friends so linked togetsr
Pve seen around me fall f
Like leaves In wintry weather,
I feel llko one ,
Who treads alone -
Some banquet-haH deserted.
Whose lights are fled.
Whose xarlanus dead, ' -S
And all but he departed! - . j
Thus In the stilly night
Ere slumbers chain baa boend ice, -
Sad Memory brings the i'.s'ai
Ot other days around me. .
WHERE SYMPATHY BELONGS.
W. D. Howells In Harper's Weekly. .
We must think more than twice whether
we side with Japan or Russia In the actual
contest; our sympathies may have a con
seauence which we shall always regret
unless we apply them with the greatest J
Dosslble caution. I
The situation seems to be that Russia,
which has already swallowed Manchuria,
has been turning her surfeit-strained eyes
toward Corea, which Japan has long been
preparing for deglutition. The fact Is that
Corea no more belongs to Japan than
Manchuria belongs to Russia: but It may
be said that Japan needs Corea more than
Russia needs Manchuria. This Is the view
lirfro Hv ttinaA wrhn cvmnffthlfe with a
hungry robber rather than a glutted rob-
ber, and they have naturally a good aeai 1
to say for themselves. In spite of all they
have to say for themselves, however. It
does not appear that the Coreans nave
any irreater wish to be eaten by tne jap
anese than the Manchurians bad to oe
eaten by Russia; but we may safely
leave those unreasonable populations out
ot the count. Our affair is solely with I
the two aggressors, how we shall choose
between them, and how we shall apply
our all but all-powerful sympathies. The
fact that the Coreans are said to hate the
Japanese with the hate of a helpless na
tion for a strong one may be admitted
without affecting the fact that Japan sus- I
pects Russia ot ultimate designs upon
Corea: and still less can It sway us in
view of the brilliant victory ior'the Jap
anese following the surprise of the Rus
sian warshlDs In Port Arthur.
On whom, then, shall -we turn our DacK3?
On the plucky little Japs, whom we our
selves liberated to International seir-con-
sclousness, and who have just struck a
deadly blow at an enemy Ignorant of the
existence of war, or on our ancient and
faithful allies, the Russians, who are sup
posed to have stood our tacit friends in
the midst of explicit foes, and who would,
for all we know, have come to our defense
If we had needed them? We have here a
duty to fulfil as well as a pleasure to in
dulge. It would be delightful to give
loose rein to our emotions In either dlrec-1
U?,'.bUt lt berifh;
public which has added to Its responsl-1
billtles the despotic government of a peo.
pie, bought at?2a head, who bate us; It I
is a union which has Just hastened to
profit by the dismemberment of a union
in South America, and its citizens cannot
be too careful In casting their sympathies
for one side or the other in all pending
difficulties. Upon the whole, would not
it be best to wait for the end of tne war.
and then give our sympathy to the victor?
That is what other world powers do, and
It must be allowed that there Is a logic I
in tne accompusnea loci wiiiuai tumco mtu
almost the authority ot Inspiration.
But If we cannot wait, If we must do
something with sympathies which, if we
bottle them up in our bosoms may threat
en us with explosive violence, why Bhould
not we give them where they are certain
to do no harm if they do no good? Why
should not we offer then? In what seems
to be a war of statesmen to the poor com
mon men on both sides who must fight
the statesmen's war for them, to be torn
with shot and shell, transfixed with bay
onets, hewn down with sabers, drowned
in sinking ships, blown into the air by
bursting magazines, or scalded to death
in the steam of the torpedo cruisers? I
do not find myself, after all, so greatly
concerned In behalf of the knot of able
aristocrats who hold the destinies of
Japan In their grasp, as In behalf of the
peasants snatched from their rice fields,
to feed the fires ot a ruthless ambition not
different in auallty from any lust of em
pire that the sad earth has known. The
spectacle of the Czar Imploring the aid of
heaven and invoking the patriotism of his
slavish subjects for the defense of Rus
sian honor has no majesty for me; though
I think that of all living men his case Is
most pitiable In that he must look from
the bloody gulf of war yawning before
him, back to that heavenly beight wpere
lately he stood for universal peace. More
impressive to me are the hordes Ot
muzhiks torn from their villages In the
snows, and sent, blind and dumb, to die
in battles of which they cannot even Im
agine the cause. More even than to the
ooor common men on either side, I think
our all but all-powerful sympathies should
be offered to the poor common wives and
poor common children whom they leave
behind them in the swamps or in the
shows, to continue alone the hard strug
gle for life for which tne nusDanas- ana
fathers' strength hardly sufflcled. To them
no victory can give back their dead In
battles, or undo their widowhood and or
phanhood. What will it matter to the
Jaoanese private whether the Mikado and
hla cabinet secure Corea or not? What
can it profit the muzhik that tho Czar
kpens Manchuria? Yet to these only, It
seems to me that in the very delicate
balance of the Eastern question can we
safely offer our sympathies.
An Old Friend of Ours.
Brooklyn Kagle.
An advertisement was printed yester
day upon one of the financial pages
of this paper announcing future pun-
lications ot a series ot articles in the
New York Commercial reflecting upon
F. Augustus Heinze. This advertise
ment was inserted without reference to
the editorial supervision of this paper
and was inadvertantly admitted into
the advertising columns. While the
advertisement appears to contain ex-
nresslons of opinion upon certain ar
ticles which the Commercial asserts It
proposes to print, the Eagle has no
knowledge on the subject. The Eagle
had no Intention whatever of charging
Mr. Heinze with any of the offenses
specified in the advertisement of tho
New York Commercial. Furthermore,
we understand that Mr. Heinze is tak
ing active steps to have the parties re
sponsible for the objectionable publi
cation in the New York Commercial
prosecuted criminally.
Well, What of It?
New York Evening Post.
NEW YORK. Feb. 25. To the Edi
tor.) On November 9, 1857, the fol
lowing three questions were submitted
to a vote of the people of Oregon, and
received the following vote:
"Do you vote for the Constitution?"
Vps. 7195: no. 3195.
. "Do you vote for slavery in Oregon?"
Yes. 2645: no. 7727.
"Do you vote for free negroes In Or-
etron?" Yes, 1081; no. 8040.
Bv the negative vote on the last
question, section 35, of Article I (bill
of rights) of the Constitution was
adonted. It expressly denies to free
TiptrrnM or mulattoes the right to
"come, reside, or be within this state.
or hold any real estate, or make any
contracts, or maintain any suit there
in."
This section remains in the Oregon
Constitution, though abrogated by the
-14th amendment, kobekt jk. tiuuu.
Contentment.
Joshua Sylvester.
I weigh not fortune's frown or smile;
I Joy not much in earthly Joys;
I seek not state, I reck not style;
I am not fond of fancy's toys;
I Test so pleased with what-Z have
I wish no more, no more I crave.
1 quake not at the thunder's crack;
I tremble not at noise of war;
X swound-'not at the news of wrack;
I shrink not at a hlazlngs star;
I fear not loss, I hope not gain,
I envy none, I none disdain.
I-see ambition never pleased;
I see tome Tantals starved .In store;.
""I see gold's dropsy seldom eased;
I see -even Midas gape for more;
I neither want nor yet abound '
Eaough'a a feaat, content is crowned.
I feign nofc friendship where I hate; r
I fawn- not on the 4reat (in. show);
V I prit praise mean estate
Keitner too lorty nor too low:
Thl, this Is 11 my choice, my cher
X mine .contest, a cosacieBce clear.
NOTE AND COMMENT. ;
A fashion paper predicts a red Summer.
So far as the Orient Is concerned,- the pa
per is probably right.
Mr. Ham, treasurer of a Boston churchx
home, got away with $14,000,
He wasn't:
sucn a nam after alL
Albany Is to have a brass band this "-
Summer, and her citizens will do more
blowing about the town than ever.
t
In yesterday's paper situations are ad-1 -
vertlsed for by "tray arm waitresses." .
Here 13 a chance for the beauty doctor, "
surety.
Gambling I3 a thing of the past In Sa
lem, Dut residents of that city should
cheer up.
The trip to Portland is not a
long one.
The New York World remarks that
Perry Heath had two friends Senator
Hanna and the statute of limitations. And
Hanna Is dead.
The guna go a-boomlng. bln-ban-. -
Round the city that's known as Ping Tang.
aney re nring as last
As the raindrops slip past.
Or as fast as a girl can sling slang.
Carnegie meets with great obstacles In
his attempts to Impoverish himself. The
civil engineers have refused to accept the
gift of a million-dollar building. Haughty
body of men! So poor Andy has to bear
the burden of his million unaided by the
engineering associations.
Two Seattle boys, aged 10, recently held
up and robbed another boy, aged 6. To be
gin training at a tender age is good, both
for the majority and the minority. The
majority will learn to be accomplished
robbers and the minority will learn tc
'give up without squealing."
Courtland, which Is situated, approprt-
ale!y enouS ln Kansas, has a basket-
. v . . -
ba club. of ch the members are all
women, .ttow awKwaru it win De
ior ono or tne piayere to get a black: eye
In the course of a game with the Wichita
Wingless Angels or the Topeka Trilbies.
She will never be able to persuade her
friends that she can lick her husband with
Impunity.
It la a pleasure to pay a laggard trib-
ute to the fancies of soma of tha -writer
who described our blaze, says the Balti
more Herald. It was an opportunity and
we are glad to say that at least a few '
rose to It well. We shall leave out of the
list the artist who had the waves of fire
sweeping up Washington's monument and
blistering the feet of the immortal George.
We prefer to thank those gentlemen who
wrote on burning paper. The first of these
was a Philadelphia man, who telegraphed
to the North American that the sheet on
which he was performing was being
scorched, but now we find that David
Graham Phillips, who came down -to de
scribe the fire for Collier's Weekly, was
just as enterprising as the gentleman from
the City of Scrapple, for Mr. Phillips
wrote: -
"The newspaper men, with the fire still
ten blocks away, were toiling with the
windows wide, with the sweat streaming
from their faces as If It were midsummer
under the equator. And sparks in showers
borne on that fiery hot wind came in and
descended upon the very paper on which
they were writing, again and again set
ting It on fire.' - , t
the equator and .the open- Windows - and.
even the scorched paper but that "again
and again" la a trlflle too much.
Still, we must remember that Mr. Phil-
Hps is a novelist.
In Brooklyn young women are employed.
during the Summer afternoons to 'teach
the school children how to play games.
The girls have to pass an examination be
fore they can obtain a license, and a tax
payer, in a letter to the Eagle, refers to
the last list of questions as apparently
"intended for applicants for positions as
dealers at Canfield's." Here are the ques
tions: QUIET GAMES.
Time, V& hours. Candidate's number
1. (a) Mention all the pieces used In -a jrame
of chess.
(b) State how they may be moved.
(c) Draw a diagram and- Indicate the Dleces
of two players in a game, and make two open
ing moves on each side. (20.)
2. In chess, when is a kins said to be "in
check" ? When a klnir Is In daiurer. what mav
player do? If the things mentioned br you
are all impossible, what happens? (16.)
3. (a) Describe briefly four card games suit
able for use In a playground. (20.)
(b) What things are to be inia.rr'or? nrafnaf .
"In the play Ins of such games In a playground?
to.)
4. How would you organize game clubs in'
your playground? What Is the value ot prog
eny organizea game clubs? (15.) " - -
5. What plans would you make for
(a) The distribution of games,
(b) The playing of games, ,
(c) Inciting an Interest for games,
(dr The collection of games,
(c) The record of games played during one
session? (25.)
It will be seen that no mention is made
of oraps, one of the most oooular and-
one of the quietest games for children of
from 6 to 8. And then imagine the ring-around-a-rosy
players having to stop -
every now and then to enter their scores
in some record, which would be used at.
the end of the season as the basis of a
statistical report by the teacher. ' - .
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
He I think I am a fool! She Well. "dear.
you told me It was a wife's duty to agree with
her husband. Yonkers Statesman.
! jtrana ie jaoeiea that box "dry" goodsr
juimns wnat was in 11 : MlGlns A bound
volume of the Congressional Record. Balti
more News.
"What Is wit, anyway?" "Well, a good'
many people seem to have the idea that wit
is the knack of making- one person uncom
fortable in the presence of others." Chi
cago Post.
"Have you ever been in South Dakota?'1
he asked. "No, sir," she indignantly re-"
plied. "My husband was killed by being
mistaken for a deer In Michigan." Chicago- -
Record-Herald.
'Judging from the price of eggs, every :hen
must thing she Is laying golden ones," said
Snooper. "And I am one of the geesa thai-'
buys the golden eggs," answered Swaybaclc -Detroit
Free Press.
Mrs. Gushlngton-Newrox (examining por-,
trait) Why, it's Just like out Mrs.-Rouge-Potter
I'm so glad you think, so.
Mrs. Gushlngton-Newrox Oh, yes; why
Just see how naturally the face Is painted:
Puck. . v-
Mra. Nurltch I want to get a pair of
swell-white gloves to wear to a ball. Clerk.
Ye3'm. How Ions do you want them?
-Mrs. Nurltch See here, young man,-' Taln't
talkln about rentm" "em. want to. buy
em. Philadelphia Press.
' Mrs. JStrongmind I really believe, that I
am at last beginning to make air . impres
sion upon the public Mr. S. Have 'the
'Papers praised your last lecture? Mrs. S.
N-o; bat today I heard you mentioned as
"the husband of Mrs. Strongmlnd." Notv-
-Tork Weekly. .
The woman was doing her shopping. The
counterjumper handed her a package and
she slowly turned, away "Ha-S seed. any-.
.-'thing:, else? she absentm!n4edly aked.
"You have Just bought some laws," ven
tured the clerk. - "Doa'ljyou tMafc-yo will
need some hose?" Prlacetoa Tlr,